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Kajaani

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems119
Verses1,372
Distinct words2,615
Collection years1834–1961
CollectorsHämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Samuli Paulaharju · N. Karjalainen
Coordinates64.1178, 27.7002

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with the whole corpus — not the most common words.

WordOccurrences
vapahaks4
saltaa2
vörö2
villetuppi2
piuvon2
pauvon2
koltina2
mummaa2
kumollansa2
vierteleksen2
ettepä2
tettepä2
palikoita2
kahtomatta2
einettä3
tetter2
kaikin5
finska2
rillep2
kauvet2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 119 poems collected in this place, 10 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 109 records give no finer place, or one of a kind this list does not cover. The counts reflect how often collectors wrote an address down, not how much was sung. Names are shown as written on the records, so they span different eras’ commune divisions; a place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from, and a name marked (?) was uncertain in the record itself. All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Murtomäki (5)
Kajaanin seud (4)
Purola (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (109)

Sample verses with parallels in other places

Verses recorded here whose close parallels appear in poems from other collection places — a trace of the shared oral tradition.